Orienteering

This is one will be personal.
About my love for elite orienteering.

An update post because I thought it has been too long since the last one. Yet, there is not much to report. In short, training is feeling a bit better and there are signs that racing is feeling normal again as well. However, my shape is far from a robust Read more

Inconclusive is what describes this “season” the best. I gave my situation time, and more time and it continued to get slowly better. Never got it bad enough to really call it quits, and after spending two weeks in Finland for a training camp which I ended with running the Read more

Training starts to feel like (actual) training again. I train some acceptable amounts of hours and also some intensity again and am finally getting the feeling of “accomplishing” something in my everyday training again. A feeling I was missing for quite some months now. However, it has been more than Read more

It has been two months since the last posts and besides time not much has changed. Things have not gone worse but on the other hand without a diagnosis and treatment it is difficult to expect significant improvement. I am mostly writing this post for the sake of it, and, Read more

My situation has not really improved since my last post. Training still feels not great sometimes and I am at a point where it is starting to get hard to tell the difference between what doesn’t feel great and what is just bad shape. In light of this unclear outlook Read more

It is winter and in a way I am training but at the same time is it far from what I generally consider winter-training. My blog-posting rate can often be an indicator of how it is going because it means there is some event to write about, be it positive Read more

EOC in Italy was not a failure but neither did I manage to qualify for any final race which was disspointing

The orienteering season slowly comes to an end. Ater Switzerland last year it is apparently Italy´s turn again to hold the last Worldcup round in form of the European Sprint Championships in the region of Verona. Since ASOM, my ankle has been getting more and more stable so I dared Read more

Okay, I know the title is a bit of a click-bait. I might as well have written addicted to elite orienteering but this sounds less destructive. However, does the title not come from pure harmony so let the diary entry begin.  In August I finally spend some time with the Read more